On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:32:41PM -0800, Jan Steinman wrote:
> I'd *rather* see you form a community car-sharing co-op. You could
> have a tiny, fuel-efficient vehicle for your daily commute, and could
> sign-out the big pickup for those rare times you need it. If you're
> in a suburb, you could do it all within walking distance.
I don't have a daily commute. I have a weekly one, 125 miles each way to the
airport, where I get on a jet airliner (cue Steve Miller) and fly off
somewhere else - a different somewhere else each week. No, there's no mass
transit, of any form, from the small town where I live to any of the 4
closest airports (all 2-3 hours away).
> > Further, 95 percent of my driving is at highway speed, so a hybrid would
> > do absolutely no good in my use...
> Have you seen the Smart Car?
Yes. Cute, but I'd be terrified to drive one out on the highway.
> I guess Detroit isn't letting them be sold in the US yet.
What, DaimlerChrysler isn't letting itself sell it here? That's a
particularly absurd conspiracy theory.
> Then there's the diesel Jetta -- out-performs the hybrids on the highway,
> by some accounts. (The US EPA has recently revised its MPG ratings.)
And has an absolutely horrid electrical system, like all VW/Porsche/Audi
products. Then again, my roommate's Toyota Corolla outdoes the Prius on the
highway - but it's not big enough to fit my mission profile.
> > The simple fact is that people in poor countries don't get to decide
> > what I drive.
> Don't feel lonely. Most Americans don't care much about poor people
> (Wayne being a notable exception), but China and India don't care
> that Americans don't care, and they want what we have, and China has
> most of the US Dollars that are out there, so you really don't have
> any say in what's going to happen.
I don't. We as a country do. No bureaucrat, American or Chinese, gets to
decide what I drive.
> It's gotta stop -- voluntarily, or nature will do it for us.
Baloney.
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